Last time on Obie's blog: Space spaccee SPAACCEEE, I love space.
let's make a moon base.
Why?
Helium 3 is awesome, super fusion magic fun time
Let's try something with more immediate use.
And now part 2 of Mining the Moon.
The characteristics of lunar regolith make it an engineering challenge to work with and a tremendous boon of natural resources. The chemical make up of Lunar regolith makes it extremely useful with regards to the needs of expanding humanity's frontiers. (I miss-labeled the link that properly breaks down the individual chemical elements and their actual percentages. until I find aforementioned link, I am going to put in the graph that I am grabbing from wikipedia(ok actually I am taking it from lunarpedia as the wikipedia entry is a png and blogger seems to only allow jpgs to be taken from URLs)
The moon comes with a healthy supply of oxygen, silicon, iron, aluminum and magnesium. Future explorers and manufacturers will have an excellent set of building blocks to develop a range of useful components for lunar facilities and space, including radiation and particulate shielding, radio receivers solar reflectors for concentrated PV arrays, structural supports for space stations, etc...
The range of potential applications from this recipe list is tremendous.
Sorry about this kind of stopping suddenly, I got distracted by pre-Thanksgiving fatness and TV I will update over the next few days and make this more complete. (so I cheated everything after URLs has been changed a little bit or appended)
let's make a moon base.
Why?
Helium 3 is awesome, super fusion magic fun time
Let's try something with more immediate use.
And now part 2 of Mining the Moon.
The characteristics of lunar regolith make it an engineering challenge to work with and a tremendous boon of natural resources. The chemical make up of Lunar regolith makes it extremely useful with regards to the needs of expanding humanity's frontiers. (I miss-labeled the link that properly breaks down the individual chemical elements and their actual percentages. until I find aforementioned link, I am going to put in the graph that I am grabbing from wikipedia(ok actually I am taking it from lunarpedia as the wikipedia entry is a png and blogger seems to only allow jpgs to be taken from URLs)
The range of potential applications from this recipe list is tremendous.
Lunar regolith is not with out its challenges whatever mining operation develops in future mining scenarios will need to be able to survive a source material that is both extremely abrasive and has a tendency to adhere itself to most surfaces that humans have sent to the Moon. NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos (not really sure if the Russians have done research into regolith mining right now so I am giving them the benefit of the doubt) have invested tremendous resources into developing various techniques to extract different elements from Lunar soil.
++Sorry about this kind of stopping suddenly, I got distracted by pre-Thanksgiving fatness and TV I will update over the next few days and make this more complete. (so I cheated everything after URLs has been changed a little bit or appended)
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